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Premium Member Crying River
Crying River (The Untold Ballad) 

Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crying, beautiful, cry, deep, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Crying Candle
The candle seemed to call my name
I watched its brightly flickering flame
The light from it shone bright in the dark
I was hypnotised by its golden...

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Categories: crying, father, light,
Form: Personification
Crying In Whisper
In my country,
Seeing smoky sky
Is nothing,
But Killing kids kills
Me everyday, every minute
Every second,
No matter with
Thundering bullets
Or lightening rockets;
It is being our daily habit
No more choices:
To...

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Categories: crying, political, sad, war,
Form: Free verse




Premium Member Crying With Happiness
tears roll down her face
yet she grins from ear to ear -
extreme emotions

27th March 2015...

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Categories: crying, emotions,
Form: Senryu
Mother Nature Is Crying Out
Every day a darker world we see.
Her skies are gray, and Her pain released.
 Many warning signs are shared by her.
Earthquakes, Hurricanes, and floods
on Earth.
...

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Categories: crying, environment, grief, humanity, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Crying In the Dark
Tears trace ebony stains across the smooth skin on your cheeks.
Early morning thoughts in early morning darkness,
clouds of confusion and pain fog your mind.
Life, so...

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Categories: crying, dark, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Don'T Be Crying
Don't be crying, if you have been sleepwalking
Don't be crying, if you are lost and stumbling
Don't be crying, if walking the wrong road
Don't be crying,...

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Categories: crying, uplifting,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Voice Crying Out In the Wilderness
Hard edged (unreality) you face away from my immediacy (candour eschewing) inimically you parody, offering as nice the complexity of ''vice''exploiting even nature 

(as voyeur...

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Categories: crying, caregiving
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crying Over Spilled Women
His bleeding heart
Was flustered from that torn parchment
In their leeching chapter

Pushed aside
As if “friendship” was aggression’s bull
Running through crowded cemeteries
Under quartered, sapphire moon

He sipped pitied...

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Categories: crying, feelings, lost, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Crying In the Rain
Crying in the Rain
Lurking behind the curtain of world war ;
You cheer to a Monday Night Raw;
        ...

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Categories: crying, abuse,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Crying For Light, For All Hallows and Samhain
Be still, can you hear the drum, the drum
Hear it beat like a heart in the heavy night
Hold on to your soul, for the dead...

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Categories: crying, death, halloween, light, love,
Form: Rhyme
He Had To Start Crying
He Had to Start Crying

Was terrifying,
So he had to start crying;
People were dying.

The hopes and fears of all the years
Did not create any crocodile tears
Were...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crying, sad,
Form: Haiku
Crying In the Rain
Crying in the rain
Letting go of all this pain
I do not want to see again
How we came crashing to an end
I do not want to...

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© Sev Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crying, confusion, death, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crying
crying 
stretching for the moon
on tip toe...

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Categories: crying, childhood,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member No More Goodbyes
The Carpenters in their time were defining,
Offered their fans so much more than more,
Uncanny that the words of this song keep returning,
For the brave Ukrainians,...

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Categories: crying, children,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs